About

Lewis Johs Avallone Aviles, LLP is a full service law firm with offices in Melville and Riverhead on Long Island, and in New York City. Founded in 1993, Lewis Johs has grown from four to over fifty attorneys. From its inception, Lewis Johs has steadily gained a reputation as a skilled and dynamic law firm capable of managing the most complex litigation, trial, transactional, trusts and estates, corporate and appellate work.

The Lewis Johs Coverage Unit exhibits a depth and breadth of experience that is unsurpassed. Its members have years of experience litigating, analyzing policies and providing coverage opinions and analyses of issues arising in various contexts including, but not limited to Environmental, Commercial and Personal Automobile, Homeowner’s. Commercial General Liability, Employer’s Liability, Professional Liability, Errors and Omissions, Municipal Liability, Directors and Officers Liability, and Disability Policies.

The author of the Lewis Johs Coverage Blawg, Elizabeth A. Fitzpatrick, focuses her practice on insurance coverage disputes and civil appeals. Beth is well-established in the insurance coverage field and is also frequently called upon to render coverage opinions for claims arising under commercial general liability, professional and employer's liability, homeowner's, and commercial and personal automobile liability policies, including analysis of bad faith and extracontractual exposure. Beth has lectured on insurance coverage topics for the New York State and Nassau County Bar Associations, the New York State Trial Lawyers Association and various professional groups. She has been a frequent contributor to the New York Law Journal's "Outside Counsel" column on coverage-related topics. Beth also serves as the editor of Lewis Johs's insurance coverage newsletter, entitled "We've Got You Covered."